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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Major aims of die miners in 1948 would include progressive reorganisation of the coal industry and a 35-hour week, said the General Secretary of the Miners’ Federation, Mr. G. W. S. Grant, in a New Year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Coal Mining in Australia,” is the title of a new book reviewing every aspect of the coal problem. The authors are two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOKIO Jan 2—Seventy five thousand Japan miners are working as slaves under condition unbearable for [?] in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON Jam[?] 2—A [?] announcement reveals [?] gorse sales of gold by Britain during December [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vandals with guns, shanghais and slings destroyed more than 500 panes of glass in windows at Lithgow Valley colliery In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LITHGOW, Sat. — The State coal mine, which was thrown out of action by a mechanical breakdown on December 9, will resume…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Jan. 4.—The Supreme Court on Friday granted the South African Government a provisional order for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, January 6.—British miners, in the 53 weeks’ period which ended on Saturday produced 199.7 million tons of coal,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempts by the New Zealand Government to obtain the kind of coal the country needed, in Australia and South Africa had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday. — Random selections of mine workers, from mine manager to pit boy, will be made when the Joint Coal Board’s medical survey on mineworkers on N.S.W. coalfields begins this month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners and their families are returning from the seaside resorts, where they had been spending their three weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Jan. 9.—Enginemen in the coal industry, who threaten to strike on Monday next, have been warned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SHANGHAI, Jan. 9 (AAP-Reuter). —Four Americans, en route to Hankow from Yenching, according to an unconfirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Second only to the miners' call for men is the miners' call for steel to build the equipment which will make the miners' work result in a maximum tonnage of coal at the surface. Mine locomotives have to work over heavy gradients…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton and district had no major crime during 1947, this being disclosed by official figures obtained to-day from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Sat—Preparations have been made for a resumption of work at all coal mines on Monday after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Second only to the miners' call for men is the miners' call for steel to build the equipment which will make the miners' work result in a maximum tonnage of coal at the surface. British miners are as good as any; their natural conditions no harder. Yet long…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Federal Enginedrivers and Firemen’ Association dispute concerning payment for Saturday work, which threatens to involve N.S.W. mines in a general stoppage on January 21, will be discussed at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday. — All but three of the State’s 140 coal mines are working to-day after the miners’ three weeks’…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Lithgow State mine has been working since last Monday to offset the time lost by a breakdown last month, and…
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